Wednesday, August 13, 2008

It is a quiet night on the southwest side of the city of Chicago, as the soundsof idling diesel locomotives parked just west of the 1914 built Elsdon Roundhousefill the night time air. It is a chilly night in April of 1983, and the GTW Elsdon Yard, Roundhouse, The former passenger station on West 51st Street, and Terminal operations are in their last months of operations. Elsdon would officially close in October of 1983, and terminal switching as well as locomotive servicing would soon be moved to the Belt Railway of Chicago Clearing Yard in Bedford Park Illinois.This was the begining, to an end of an era in Chicago's Elsdon neighborhood.